
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, March 16, 1992                   TAG: 9203160021
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A8   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

WORST OFFENDERS

Here are 22 of the 24 current and former members of the House of Representatives included on the House ethics committee's list of worst offenders who wrote checks on their House bank accounts with insufficient funds.

The list, obtained by The Associated Press, includes the numbers of checks bounced and the number of months the overdrafts exceeded their next paychecks during the 39 months under investigation.

Former Rep. Tommy Robinson, D-Ark., 996 checks, 16 months.

Bob Mrazek, D-N.Y., 972 checks, 23 months.

Robert Davis, R-Mich., 878 checks, 13 months.

Charles Hatcher, D-Ga., 819 checks, 35 months.

Former Rep. Doug Walgren, D-Pa., 858 checks, 16 months.

Stephen J. Solarz, D-N.Y., 743 checks, 30 months.

Charles A. Hayes, D-Ill., 716 checks, 15 months.

Ronald D. Coleman, D-Texas, 673 checks, 23 months.

Carl C. "Chris" Perkins, D-Ky., 514 checks, 14 months.

Bill Alexander, D-Ark., 499 checks, 20 months.

Ed Towns, D-N.Y., 408 checks, 18 months.

Harold E. Ford, D-Tenn., 388 checks, 31 months.

Edward F. Feighan, D-Ohio, 397 checks, eight months.

Former House Democratic Whip Tony Coelho, D-Calif., 316 checks, 12 months.

William Clay, D-Mo., 329 checks, 10 months.

John Conyers, D-Mich., 273 checks, nine months.

Mary Rose Oakar, D-Ohio, 217 checks, 21 months.

Jim Scheuer, D-N.Y., 169 checks, eight months.

Joseph Early, D-Mass., 140 checks, 15 months.

Former Rep. Doug Bosco, D-Calif., 124 checks, 13 months.

Former Rep. Jim Bates, D-Calif., 89 checks, nine months.

Charles Wilson, D-Texas, 81 checks, eight months.

by CNB